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Originally Posted by mineistaken
Ok not too good example with berries. How about if some fruit growing on tree is discovered. It would not be called apple, it would have new name. Maybe blapple? Or whatever.
Would that mean it would be worse than apple or "discriminated" because it is called different? Both would be fruits. Same as garriage and marriage both would be civil unions.
Laws can be passed or changed anyway. You can pass that garriage and marriage must always have same rights and its good to go.
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We can sit here all day long and try to come up with examples. A new fruit would not be called an apple, but it would still be defined as a fruit.
I'll just cede the point. Clearly you have placed some intrinsic value on the definition of certain words. There is nothing I can say that will change your mind.
I'll leave you with this one thought.
When you have a group of people anything you do to label any segment of that group as different from the others can open that segment it up to discrimination of some sort. It may never happen, but it might. We saw it for years with civil unions. Civil unions were 100% legal in many places, but if you happened to work for the government they didn't recognize it and therefore your legal partner could not have access to any benefits you had from that job. The same could happen if you force gay couples to refer to themselves as having something other than a marriage.